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[Thad]

My right wrist's been bothering me lately (please get the masturbation jokes out of your system now; I will wait).

...

...I've been using a Logitech Marble trackball for the past couple of years and it's a huge improvement, but hasn't completely alleviated the problem.  Plus, its precision is lousy, making any kind of graphics work a monumental pain, and I haven't even attempted to game with it.

I'm eyeballing a few different brands of vertical mice; anybody have any experience with these things?  MS's Natural Wireless Laser Mouse and Evoluent's VerticalMouse 3 look decent, though I admit I am the sort of person who doesn't think he needs more than 3 buttons and a scroll wheel.  (Of course, I don't generally buy from Microsoft either, but I'm a big fan of my Natural Ergo Keyboard 4000, despite it being an MS product with unnecessary buttons.  Course, the damn thing's huge, and leaves me with limited room for a mouse next to it, which is part of why a trackball helps.)  The fact that I don't require extra buttons is probably a plus given that I spend a lot of time in Linux and OSX, which I expect will most likely give me generic drivers.

Anyway, if anybody has any experience with this kind of crap, let me know.  I would sure like not to destroy my wrist.

EDIT: ALTERNATELY: does anybody else know anything about wrist splints?  (C'mon, there's no way I'm the only guy here who's spent this much of his life clutching a mouse or controller.)  I periodically wear a Tru-Fit splint to bed, but it chafes the hell out of my hand.  I imagine it would be less abrasive if I didn't live in the damn desert, but I do, so it does.

[Mongrel]

How high is your sensitivity?

I have a normal mouse, but I purchased one with a high grade gaming laser, so that I can control it with an absolute minimum of movement. With enough practice, you can get used to a pretty damn high setting.

With a trackball, this is less a successful strategy, but if you move back to conventional mice, it's an option again.

[James Edward Smith]

I've always used more of a bicep heavy motion... oh right, sorry.

[Burrito Al Pastor]

I've been using a previous iteration of this thing for years now, and it's been pretty flawless; apparently the only difference is that my iteration (a 510) has half the DPI in monitoring movement. I keep the sensitivity fairly low, because my hands get twitchy sometimes, but you should read "gaming grade" as "highly sensitive", and as Iron Mongrel said, with a little practice you can do a lot of stuff with negligible wrist movement. Unless you're a lefty, I can pretty much unequivocally recommend this thing.

And as far as the "three buttons" thing goes, the little "back" and "forward" buttons are actually pretty awesome for internet usage. (And in games, where I find they work well for grenades and melee attacks, but I don't think that's your thing.)

[Kazz]

vertical mice

[Brentai]

(please get the masturbation ... out of your system now; I will wait).

DONE AND DONE!

Okay, that's enough of...

vertical mice

MORE LIKE A HORIZONTAL MOUSE AM I RIGHT?

Okay, so.  I don't have much experience with alternate mice, seeing as how I apparently have wrists of steel (someone else handle the "balls of steel" gag, I'm tapped out), but I do have a tablet and it works okay.  So, there's a suggestion.  Only, if you do get a tablet, make sure it's a tablet screen and not some cheap USB slab.  It's actually easier than you might think to manipulate the latter, but still irritating and it makes you feel cheap using it.

[McFrugal]

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=004

I love this thing.  It's light, ambidextrous, and has 5 buttons including a scroll wheel.  The scroll wheel gives great feedback, the buttons are reliable and responsive, and the cord doesn't get in the way (at least how I have my desk set up).  Best of all, it's not one of those stupid form-fitting mice that feel all weird if you don't have the specific size hands they designed it for.

The design may be 20 fucking years old but I think it's perfect.

[Thad]

That's actually what I was using before I switched to the trackball.

[Thad]

Wound up going with the Evoluent VerticalMouse.  So far I'm very pleased with it.  Haven't gotten the 2 extra buttons working in Linux yet; hate-hate-HATE hacking xorg.conf.